Most recently she earned aGolden Globenomination for her role as Marion Davies inMank.
And her first big acting gig didn’t exactly end well.
It’s safe to say she’s having the last laugh on both fronts.
Here’s what else you don’t know about Amanda Seyfried.
“I’ll be honest, I was pretty bad starting out,” she confessed.
She added, “I was devastated.
You always think [getting fired is] the end of the world.
I remember crying on the pier near my house on the Hudson River.”
“[I modeled] just because it was glamorous and because people let me.
I was made fun of at school for being pale and ugly,” she said (viaToronto.com).
She’s also described getting through her formative years as the “toughest challenge” she’s faced.
“I wish I could tell my 16-year-old self don’t listen to mean girls!
“I was on the phone with both of my parents.
My dad was like, ‘Just leave!’
My mom said, ‘No, no, no, go upstairs!
Find your class!’
“I never saw myself going to college, so I went home.
And I got the call to doMean Girlsthat week.”
In 2010, she toldGlamourthat her anxiety made it difficult to have a social life.
She also described her panic attacks, saying that “‘it feels like you’re going to die.
There’s nothing scarier.”
In a 2016 interview withAllure, Seyfried once again spoke out about living with OCD and anxiety.
“I’m on Lexapro, and I’ll never get off of it.
I’ve been on it since I was 19, so 11 years.
I’m on the lowest dose,” she shared.
“I don’t see the point of getting off of it.
Whether it’s [a] placebo or not, I don’t want to risk it.
And what are you fighting against?
Just the stigma of using a tool?”
The actress also spoke about the stigma ofmental illnessand how it’s treated differently than physical illness.
It should be taken as seriously as anything else,” she told Allure.
But it’s there.
Why do you gotta prove it?
If you’re able to treat it, you treat it.”
She stopped her classical training when she was 17 something that the actress said she regrets.
However, she has gotten to showcase her beautiful voice inMamma Mia!andLes Miserables.
The star also has a brief musical scene inDear John(viaBustle) where she plays guitar and sings.
The song is titled “Little House,” and surprisingly, Seyfried also wrote the lyrics.
It’s featured on the film’s soundtrack.
She downplayed her guitar skills, however, but her co-starChanning Tatumdisagreed.
She won’t say it."
“I live on a farm.
It’s what I’ve always wanted,” she explained (viaUS Weekly).
“Now, with this pandemic especially, we’ve been able to just stay.
We don’t even get on the train and go to the city.”
She says that farm life has a grounding effect on her.
